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 GMI Building Services, INC. Earns (OS1)
Green Certification Award
August 15, 2008
San Diego, August 15, 2008 - GMI Building Services, Inc., one of San Diego’s leading commercial cleaning firms, announced that it has earned the prestigious ManageMen Operating System One (OS1) Green Certified Award. GMI qualified by reaching the benchmarked standard on an annual third party audit conducted at their 525 B Street Building managed by Hines in San Diego.
GMI is California’s premiere (OS1) certified commercial cleaning service provider. (OS1) is a unique sustainable cleaning program that transforms custodial programs through in-depth training, simplicity, safety, reallocation of labor, cleaning frequencies, automation and environmental stewardship in al facets of the operations. (OS1) is recognized as the leader in sustainable cleaning processes and is the only organization to date that has obtained best practices benchmarks
and scientifically verified statistics for a cleaning process. The (OS1) Green Certified Program is the premiere recognition of outstanding custodial organizations dedicated to cleaning for health and reducing environmental harm. To achieve the recognition, a professional cleaning operation receives an audit conducted by ManageMen, Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Larry Abrams, President and CEO said, "I am truly proud of the managers and field personnel at GMI. I am awestruck by the dedicated and professional manner in which they approached the goal of recertification. The discipline and focus it took to achieve this is really motivating and speaks volumes of the incredible people we have working at GMI. I was humbled to see the empowerment this process gave our employees as they recognized the tremendous impact their individual jobs
have on the built environment. I can’t think of a better way to mark our 10th year working with ManageMen and (OS1) than by receiving recertification of one of our premier properties and clients."
GMI provides a unsurpassed level of sustainable commercial cleaning services to retail centers, high profile office buildings, homeowners’ associations and manufacturing and biotech facilities. All-inclusive building services include: janitorial & day porter services, industrial facility maintenance, steam cleaning, pressure washing, commercial floor & carpet care, window & awning cleaning and construction, repair & cleanup.
About GMI Building Services
GMI systematically cleans, secures and maintains the built environment. Since 1969, GMI Building Services, Inc. has provided all-inclusive building services to companies nationwide, offering commercial cleaning (OS1, an ISO 9001 comparable system), security analysis and management (based on the Integrated Security Solutions method), and facility maintenance, repair and construction (OST1, a proprietary system). GMI has adopted innovative methodologies so that industrial facility
services can be streamlined and scaled appropriately to suit the needs of the client.
GMI’s core services are designed to protect clients’ asset values using methods proven to be safe, efficient and cost-effective. GMI invests in their clients by performing thorough research studies, conducting rigorous recruiting, screening and training and implements state-of-the-art technologies to achieve the highest benefit-to-cost ration for each client.
Contact:
Margo Turner, Vice President Business Development
Phone: 858-309-7032
Email:mturner@gmiweb.com
Website: www.gmiweb.com
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